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Originally Posted by artdutra04
I've never understood the "holier than thou" attitude most FIRSTers have towards Battle Bots.
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It's not a "holier than thou" attitude -- for me at least. When we're supermarket fundraising and the battlebot question comes up, I've got to
quickly come up with an answer that grabs them. (Heh --
holier than thou 
) Depending who it is, my additional answer is "-- but it is for high school students, after all", usually given to worried parents; with an added apologetic shrug to battlebotians. (That is a word, isn't it?) Then we can get into a discussion of FRC, with maybe a donation or, even better, a local machinist/programmer/adult that wants to help us build robots.
I've seen the "battlebots" shows from way back. The (I'm guessing) original UK version was quite enjoyable, when it was versus the house robots. How do you defeat a battle ready well-practiced house robot? But it evolved into a destruction competition rather than a defeat competition, and (even before FIRST was around) I didn't like watching a 4-12 month robot project get destroyed in the first round. It's just a different kind of game.
Looking at the two websites mentioned above, there doesn't seem to be many local events - unless you count NERC's Philly as local, next fall. They looked like they just had one.